Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whew! Don, you wore me out. I just want to go backpacking somewhere between The Tetons and Mt. Robson British Columbia. While I can still spell those names. ?? On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 1:02 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > That is an interesting experiment we are running. The young and healthy > have been disproportionately affected by the layoffs. Disproportionately > missing rent payments etc. So, will they choose to vacation or catch up on > bills as they return to work. Then let's look at the other side: the rent > seekers who own the properties earning rent whether residential or > commercial. They are being hit pretty hard by missed rent payments; will > they have the cash flow to travel at any price? > > Then there are the older compromised individuals; will they get on a plane > of more than themselves as passengers risking getting the virus? > > Underlying assumptions would be no vaccine and only very limited > therapeutic options to limit the spread of the disease. > > If we assume MMT then the government can just create money and distribute > it with no consequences as to inflation or expectations of better > lifestyle. Then we just fund accounts and people live their life. What > about the producers? If they can get an acceptable living doing nothing > will they continue to farm, ranch, manufacture? What percent of decrease > in initiative can be compensated for by overall better living by the > majority? > > If we don't assume MMT then the money spent to support people will go into > the debt structure and will be financed/repaid. Then standard of living > will fall due to greater taxation and or inflation. Again, what is the > balance point between economic pain today vs long term costs defined > loosely. > > Many on this list have made good/great decisions and don't have to worry > about where there next meal is coming from or losing their shelter. If we > believe the statistics in the US more than 60% of the population don't have > $500 in ready cash to spend in an emergency. The mandated shut down has > hit these people very hard even with the increased unemployment insurance > payments; then there are the hustlers with no reported income but their > income is down considerably. Will these people go out into the market and > spend like they used to? Animal spirits is a thing if you are in the > entertainment business loosely defined. > > Then there is the developing world that has been largely unaffected by this > virus. Can their economic efforts be turned to the more local economies? > If so then their world gets much better as economic prospects open up as > they spend their local economy upwards and they money rotates internally > instead of externally. > > It will be an interesting several years. > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:33 AM Wayne Torry via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > I took a look at airfare from Greensboro, NC to Kalispell, MT yesterday. > > Normally Kalispell is in the same price range with Jackson, WY during the > > summer season: Obscenely Expensive. > > I was shocked! <$300 round trip in August. If those prices hold, the > > Rockies will be busy this summer. > > > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 12:00 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at > > leica-users.org> > > wrote: > > > > > Things should start opening up next week, perhaps you could take that > > trip > > > to Paris... > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 10:40 AM Lluis Ripoll via LUG < > > lug at leica-users.org > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Social distance > > > > < > > > > > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Abstracts/20200425_L1020551.jpg.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > Empty Streets > > > > < > > > > > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Abstracts/20200428_L1020561.jpg.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > Confined Streets > > > > < > > > > > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Abstracts/20200430_L1020562.jpg.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > Let?s Go! / VAMOS! > > > > < > > > > > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Abstracts/20200430_L1020564.jpg.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > Leica Monochrom (CCD), Noctilux 50, Green filter > > > > > > > > Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome > > > > > > > > Saludos cordiales > > > > Lluis > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Leica Users Group. > > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Don > > > don.dory at gmail.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information